Category: don’t panic

just breathe

It was a day when he’d napped for two whole hours. Waking around 12:30 p.m. in dare-I-say? a delightful mood. Diaper change, sit in the living room. What will we do next? Oh, lunch probably. And then it starts. Like…

and then it happened

In improv, I learned a writing game where two people pass a sheet of paper back and forth, each one taking a turn writing a line of dialogue. A third person intermittently calls out bits of stage direction or dialogue,…

sleep interrupted

Yesterday’s noble optimism has been clouded by today’s lack of sleep. He just didn’t sleep today. From 5 a.m. on. Okay, he took mini naps, nap-ettes at 3 and 5. And wouldn’t go to sleep until after 8, and after…

shhhhhh… he’s napping

Well, the let’s sit up and nurse in the night experiment revealed that in fact, yes, I get more sleep if I don’t do that. Nap nursing, here I come back. Not only can the boy nurse on one boob…

long, lean, and lanky

He’s over 25 inches long, weighs just a hair shy of 12 pounds. That’s 65th percentile for height/length, and 10th percentile for poundage. But mom, before you call me all worried… he’s fine. Gaining weight at a normal rate and…

do i shower or do i blog?

The beautiful boy is sleeping in his crib. I’ve already eaten breakfast, checked email. So, now, do I shower or do I blog? (Well, clearly, you know the answer.) The thing is, I want to shower. I neeeeeeed to shower.…

eclipsed

I was driving to pick up take-out Vietnamese food and talking on the cell phone with friend Jenny who informed me about the eclipse that was happening RIGHT THEN. I was too tired to bother. After that lovely start to…